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Personally, I'm not inherently against it. Primarily, I don't think the current legal framework in regards to marriage will really work properly when it comes to polygamy. If the law is that everyone is married to everyone else in a polygamous marriage (in terms of gov't, marriage should create a single economic unit) and there's a workable framework for next of kin issues, divorce, taxes etc, then I don't have an issue.
It's just a different issue, which gets annoying when people try use a slippery slope argument.
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Why are so many who support heterosexual marriage opposed to polygamy? If they think a man should be able to marry a woman why are they against a man with many wives, or even a woman with many husbands?
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There was some belief that the Court didn't have jurisdiction. If you read the decision and the dissent, most of the dissent was similar to the decision on the Prop 8 case. Alito's dissent did go into further issues, but only Thomas joined him on those. Roberts didn't believe that the Court had jurisdiction over the case due to lack of standing and only joined in Part 1 of Alito's dissent.
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Since straight marriage leads to gay marriage, and gay marriage leads to polygamy, it is clear that in order to prevent polygamy from becoming legal we must attack the source - straight marriage.
(Slippery slope... or double-edged sword?)
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A lot of people aren't, but there are some who have concerns over the rights of individual parties in a polygamous marriage.
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Hurricane, Earthquake, shooting, anything that causes large damage or deaths.
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Most people I know who support gay marriage are not opposed to polygamy in principle. The opposition comes in regarding forced or coerced polygamous marriages between older men and girls, that sort of thing. But not polygamy on the whole.
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Naa most wouldn't do that, it would cost too much to stand by those convictions.
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[serious];63423399 said:
Actually by definition that form of "traditional marriage" would predate same-sex marriage (except in societies where same-sex marriage predated Judaism or Christianity of course...)
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